The officer, the doctor and all the people suffered from it even the lad.
The injustice's cancer harmed all the society's cells.
You left the people cry, die and from poverty yell.
You made the flower of freedom wilt.
So, anger, misery, and dissatisfaction were built.
You made us live in stagnation and retardation.
No prosperity, no creations only frustration.
Here came our brave youth and made a revolution.
Slogans rose against dictatorship and unfair constitution.
Their great, historic, and peaceful revolution highly succeeded.
They cooperated in cleaning streets&only for Egypt heeded.
Their patriotism and determination clearly appeared.
For democracy, human rights and liberty, they cheered.
Finally, the liberalization and the freedom bells rang.
The pure youth wanted to break every fang.
And the dawn which came after a dark night sprang.
Celebrations began, fireworks set off & songs sang.
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This is a poem called, Egyptian Revolution, by Merna Ibrahim. This poem is about the Egyptian Revolution. It talks about how the people felt they were unfairly treated and Mubarak was all controlling and totally unjust. It relates because it is about the whole revolution and basically told the revolution in poem form. I feel that the speaker of the poem is a narrator, or the people. The tone comes across as strongly defiant and slightly frustrated. Some of the literary features in this poem are rhymes, so there is rhyme scheme, and in the poem, the writers say that the “Flower of freedom to wilt” is a mental image, which is imagery. There is also a plot within the poem because it tells the story of the revolution. Two of the lines that I feel stood out the most were the lines “You made the flower of freedom wilt. So, anger, misery, and dissatisfaction were built.” I liked this part because the narrator or people who are speaking in the poem attack Mubarak and blame him from the lack of freedom. I felt that in this line, “The monster of corruption was massive and bad”, has an interesting choice of words. Using “monster” to describe corruption was accurate, yet an unusual word to you. There are many emotions within this poem, sorrow, rage, despair, strength. I feel that the strongest emotion in this poem is “Determination”.
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Egyptian Revolution
By: Merna IbrahimIn your reign, the ogre of vacancy was strong.
The regime wasn't right, majority was wrong.
The monster of corruption was massive and bad.
The officer, the doctor and all the people suffered from it even the lad.
The injustice's cancer harmed all the society's cells.
You left the people cry, die and from poverty yell.
You made the flower of freedom wilt.
So, anger, misery, and dissatisfaction were built.
You made us live in stagnation and retardation.
No prosperity, no creations only frustration.
Here came our brave youth and made a revolution.
Slogans rose against dictatorship and unfair constitution.
Their great, historic, and peaceful revolution highly succeeded.
They cooperated in cleaning streets&only for Egypt heeded.
Their patriotism and determination clearly appeared.
For democracy, human rights and liberty, they cheered.
Finally, the liberalization and the freedom bells rang.
The pure youth wanted to break every fang.
And the dawn which came after a dark night sprang.
Celebrations began, fireworks set off & songs sang.
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This is a poem called, Egyptian Revolution, by Merna Ibrahim. This poem is about the Egyptian Revolution. It talks about how the people felt they were unfairly treated and Mubarak was all controlling and totally unjust. It relates because it is about the whole revolution and basically told the revolution in poem form. I feel that the speaker of the poem is a narrator, or the people. The tone comes across as strongly defiant and slightly frustrated.Some of the literary features in this poem are rhymes, so there is rhyme scheme, and in the poem, the writers say that the “Flower of freedom to wilt” is a mental image, which is imagery. There is also a plot within the poem because it tells the story of the revolution.
Two of the lines that I feel stood out the most were the lines “You made the flower of freedom wilt. So, anger, misery, and dissatisfaction were built.” I liked this part because the narrator or people who are speaking in the poem attack Mubarak and blame him from the lack of freedom. I felt that in this line, “The monster of corruption was massive and bad”, has an interesting choice of words. Using “monster” to describe corruption was accurate, yet an unusual word to you.
There are many emotions within this poem, sorrow, rage, despair, strength. I feel that the strongest emotion in this poem is “Determination”.